MINIATURIST, German
(active c. 1200 in Trier)

Speculum Virginum

c. 1200
Manuscript (Inv.-Nr. 3984), 125 x 178 mm
Kestner Museum, Hannover

Speculum Virginum (Mirror of Virgins) is a 12th-century didactic treatise on female monastic life. The original text dates to the mid-12th century and was possibly composed at the Augustinian Abbey of Andernach.

The present sheet from the manuscript shows two pairs of knights doing battle.